Stories by: Patrick Thibodeau

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Obama's H-1B answer in forum may haunt him 09 February, 2012 09:06:00

WASHINGTON -- Until President Barack Obama responded to a question about H-1B visas during an online forum last week, the administration had said little about the controversial program.
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U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems 08 February, 2012 23:10:24

In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the U.S. Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing center that will one day house exascale systems.
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India builds a mega data center 07 February, 2012 23:39:24

IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the world.
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Engineer's wife 'ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs 04 February, 2012 09:09:24

The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas. The offer was made during a live online town hall after the engineer's wife questioned the government's policy concerning H-1B visa workers.
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H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds 03 February, 2012 23:14:24

H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.
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U.S. firms should disclose offshore hiring, says lawmaker 02 February, 2012 08:58:23

WASHINGTON -- A newly filed U.S. House bill would require that U.S. public companies disclose the number of workers they employ in the U.S., and the number that work overseas.
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Obama attacks offshoring, seeks visa reform 25 January, 2012 23:09:43

In his State of the Union Speech, President Barack Obama Tuesday night attacked offshoring, urged businesses to bring jobs back to the U.S., and renewed his appeal for visa reforms to keep foreign students from returning home after earning advanced degrees.
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Obama wants less offshoring, as vendors see U.S. shift 19 January, 2012 23:43:41

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is trying to encourage U.S. companies not to send work overseas . This might not be as hard a job as it seems for some types of IT work.
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The top 10 tech priorities of CIOs 18 January, 2012 21:49:40

Analytics and business intelligence will be the top technology priorities for CIOs this year, according to Gartner Inc.'s annual survey of IT executives.
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SOPA fight in 'last rounds,' says senator at CES 12 January, 2012 12:57:42

LAS VEGAS -- With the odds perhaps still against them, two lawmakers who are fighting the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills took their case to the world's largest consumer electronics gathering.
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Quad core-chips boost tablet price vs. performance battle 11 January, 2012 08:06:40

Leader marketing manager Yanbo Wu displays the company's 7-in. tablet that uses an ARM Cortex-A8 single-core processor. The tablet sells for $179. (Photo by Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld) LAS VEGAS -- Attendees at Consumer Electronics Show here are seeing the tablet market splitting in multiple directions as the price versus performance battle intensifies.